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| 3 areas of the surgical area |
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| What does it mean to use aseptic technique? |
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| Keep contamination from occuring. |
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| What is the difference between infection and contamination? |
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| Contamination is a break in sterility (living microbes contained). Infection is contamination with infectious agents. Contamination can lead to infection. |
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| Job of the Circulating Tech? |
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| Clip/ Clean, clean tables, watch everyone for breaks in sterility, cleans up after. |
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| Job of the Anesthesia Tech? |
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| Physical exam, surgical stability, recovery, premeds, drugs, catheter placement, clean anesthetic materials. |
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| Job of Anesthesia Assistant? |
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| Walk outside to void, restrain for physical, etc., help recover and clean after. |
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| Job of Surgical Assistant? |
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| 6 minute scrub-in, assist surgeon, drape patient, pass instruments, know anatomy, clean up after, repackage instruments. |
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| How to behave when you are NOT sterile, around sterile people (4) |
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| Always face sterile field; pass with your front to their back; no reaching over; dont walk between 2 sterile fields; |
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| How to behave when you are sterile (4) |
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| Face sterile field; pass sterile people front-to-front; only touch sterile field; avoid wetting scrubs. |
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| When scrubbed in, what part of you is "sterile"? |
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| Fingertip to elbow, above waist, below shoulders. Keep hands clasped into chest. Back is not sterile. |
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| Why minimize conversations and movement in the surgical suite? |
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| Minimize moving air currents to stir up potential microbes; talking adds to potential microbes in our exhaled air or saliva. |
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| Water moving through fabrics- gives microbes on the nonsterile side a free ride to the sterile side. |
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| Describe the rough surgical scrub (after clipping) |
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| Alcohol applied all over to de-fat the skin. Scrub material (chlorhex or betadine) should start at surgical incision site (center of clip), move outward in a circle to edge. Scrub minimum of 3 times, more if skin is dirty. |
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| Describe final surgical scrub |
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| Chlorhex/ Betadine scrub in same spiral pattern. Needs to remain on skin for 2 minutes to denature microbes. Wipe dry with sterile dry 4x4. |
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